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From Maser to Laser: Talk by Arthur L. Schawlow at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (Video8). Dept. of Special Collections and
University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biographical/Historical Sketch

Physicist. Professor of Physics at Stanford University since 1961 and executive head of the Physics Dept., 1966-70; at Bell
Laboratories, 1951-1961. Schawlow is best known for his work on lasers, and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1981.